Relativistic hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions: general aspects and recent developments
Abstract
Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in explaining the collective behaviour of the QCD matter produced in high energy heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. We briefly review the latest developments in the hydrodynamical modeling of relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Essential ingredients of the model such as the hydrodynamic evolution equations, dissipation, initial conditions, equation of state, and freeze-out process are reviewed. We discuss observable quantities such as particle spectra and anisotropic flow and effect of viscosity on these observables. Recent developments such as event-by-event fluctuations, flow in small systems (proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions), flow in ultra central collisions, longitudinal fluctuations and correlations and flow in intense magnetic field are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.08694,
title = {Relativistic hydrodynamics in heavy-ion collisions: general aspects and recent developments},
author = {Amaresh Jaiswal and Victor Roy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08694},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
36 pages, 16 figures, invited review, published version